Defending champion France's Cyril Despres rides his KTM motorcycle during the 2011 Argentina-Chile Dakar Rally symbolic start in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011. The rally roared out of Buenos Aires with a ceremonial parade of hundreds of vehicles from its famed Obelisk on Saturday. The 16-day trek will take drivers 9,500 kilometers across northern Argentina, through the Andes, the Atacama Desert of Chile and back to the Argentine capital. less